When:Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Time:7:30pm
Where:The Bell House
149 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 643-6510
Cost:Free
From Secret Science Club:
The Secret Science Club presents mathematical sociologist and social network expert Duncan Watts of Microsoft’s spankin’-new NYC-based research lab. Dr. Watts blows all our minds with his talk “Everything Is Obvious (*Once You Know the Answer).”
Every single day, people create, collect, and share 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Text. Tweets. Photos. Videos. Clicks. Links. Consumer transactions. Blog posts and comments. And so on . . . down, down, down the rabbit hole . . . While all this ballooning information creates storage nightmares for some, a new breed of computational social scientists is enthusiastically exploring Big Data and extracting surprising insights about human behavior.
–Groove to machine-coded tunes